IABL2017

The 2nd World Conference on Blended Learning

April 26-28, 2017

Toronto, ON, Canada

George Brown College

Pre-conference Workshop 1:

Build the best eLearning ever with Adobe Captivate 9 and friends

Audience: Novices, Intermediate and Advanced!

Whether you’ve never used Captivate before, or you’ve used it for a long time, come learn how to create eLearning in a new way. Learn to use Captivate’s greatest strengths, and also look at other tools you may find very helpful in making your eLearning great!

Joe Ganci

Joe Ganci

eLearningJoe.com

Pre-conference Workshop 2:


Using video in face-to-face teaching practice

Audience: Novices and Intermediate

Teaching face-to-face classes, especially in courses that are strongly focussed on practice, calls for application of new techniques to assure that all students can pace their practice and have a chance to go back and review the material. Videos recorded during the lab session are amazing tool allowing the instructors to address those needs.

Tom Tsiliopoulos

Tom Tsiliopoulos

Centennial College

Pre-conference Workshop 3:


Using mobile tools to build engagement in large classes

Audience: Novices and Intermediate

How to teach large classes and keep students engaged? Which tools to select to build engagement and monitor the effectiveness of the learning process? How to make learning more fun? This session will answer those questions and guide you through various mobile and online tools.

Maziar Masoudi

Maziar Masoudi

George Brown College

Pre-conference Workshop 4:


Digital Storytelling for Professional Practice

Audience: Novices and Intermediate

This product engagement session will allow attendees to discover, hands-on, how to quickly and easily use the free Adobe Spark suite of tools to generate compelling, media-rich assets that can provide opportunities for deep and expressive meta-narrative reflections about one's journey in learning.

Jim Kinney

Jim Kinney

George Brown College

Pre-conference Workshop 5:


Literacy Uplift - Mobile tools for language literacy

Audience: Novices and Intermediate

In this workshop, attendees will be introduced to mobile tools for language literacy with the focus on the new mobile solution for language literacy learners, that is developed by the team from George Brown College, Athabasca University, Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) Toronto, Literacy Nipissing, and Development Made Simple. Participants will have a chance to test this new tool and will be also presented with the preliminary results of the research.

Literacy Uplift

Literacy Uplift

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